Civil Rights Test Review

After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, it was no longer legal to

• let African Americans ride the bus.
• deny someone of a job because of their race.
• fire someone for not doing their job.
• kick someone out of the military.

Court case that created "Separate-but-equal" doctrine.

• Sweatt v. Painter
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Mendez v. Kirby ISD

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Nonviolent protest, where protesters occupied space in order to protest segregation.

• Sit-In
• Freedom Rides
• Selma March
• Filibuster

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The federal law outlawing literacy tests, poll taxes, and other requirements that made it difficult for southern blacks to exercise their right for suffrage    

• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Voting Rights Act of 1965

Black nationalist leader who for awhile was a spokesman for the Nation of Islam; talked about black freedom “by any means necessary;” was assassinated on February 21, 1965, in NYC by Nation of Islam members  

• Malcolm X
• Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Who was arrested for refusing to give up their seat on a bus? This event led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Charlayne Hunter

• Harriet Tubman

• Rosa Parks

• Rebecca L. Felton

_______________ wrote "I Have a Dream" and delivered it to thousands in Washington, DC. 

• Harry Belafonte
• Barack Obama
• Martin Luther King, Jr. 
• Jesse Jackson

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This lawyer helped argue for Brown in Brown v. Board of Education. He became the first African-American Supreme Court Judge

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Thurgood Marshall

• Oveta Culp Hobby

• Lyndon B. Johnson

Bus rides to the South to protest Jim Crow Laws and segregation

• Rosa Parks

• Jim Crow Laws

• Freedom Rides

• The Great Society

Which national organization that helped fight for equal rights for African Americans?

• LULAC

• NCAA

• NRA

• NAACP